Backgrounds Quotes - Page 18

• On the one hand, I'm a kind of crazy anarchist-sympathizer with a hippie background, so this sounds pretty good to me. Make something for the love of it! But the reality is so much more complicated.

  Astra Taylor

  Crazy, Hippie, Reality

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing.

  Anna Journey

  Art, Writing, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I do think that given my background as a poet, and also I work in a different field, you're sort of neither here nor there.

  Victoria Chang

  Thinking, Fields, Different

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I really got to fuse some of my hip hop & R&B background into the Jessica 6 album since I was really hands on with Morgan & Andrew while writing and producing the record.

  Nomi Ruiz

  Writing, Hands, Hip Hop

  "Jessica 6's Nomi". Interview with Sam Blodgett, brightestyoungthings.com. April 8, 2011.

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• Given that the label "immigrant literature" is already established, unavoidable for anyone with a migrant background and used in any given context, I strongly advocate an absurd amount of specification to go along with the label.

  Sasa Stanisic

  Migrants, Labels, Literature

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Winnipeg has the largest collection of Inuit art in the world, I believe. They can be quite simple in a great way and often have sparse backgrounds and isolated characters. They often have a really great look to them.

  Marcel Dzama

  Art, Believe, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I stay healthy - I mean, I've got a sports background and an athletic background. I was in competitive sports since the age of five. I was a personal trainer before I was an actor and a personal trainer for the first few years while I was acting and getting my thesis.

  Neil Jackson

  Sports, Mean, Years

  "Sleepy Hollow’s Neil Jackson: Embracing Passion and Health". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I come from a boxing background. Three generations of boxers. I personally hate to fight, but I love the science of boxing. Mind, body. So for me, shadow boxing or hitting the heavy bag is something that gets me in a centered state. It's calming for me. To me, boxing isn't about the other person. It's about me. My inner struggles. It works for me.

  Aleks Paunovic

  Hate, Struggle, Fighting

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• Everybody has a background. Everybody has a past. Not everybody's the same person all the way through.

  Lorenzo di Bonaventura

  Past, Way, Persons

  "Producer Lorenzo De Bonaventura On Set Interview G.I. JOE: THE RISE OF COBRA". Group interview, collider.com. July 30, 2009.

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• I come from a little bit of a theatrical background. I started that way. I don't have a tremendous body of work or anything, but I went to drama school. And so, to get to do a piece where the characters get to talk a lot, and that isn't just about the spectacle or the set piece, or is simply visual or movement based. It was really wonderful for me, and juicy and exciting.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Drama, School, Character

  Source: collider.com

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• When people get together that come from different musical backgrounds, a lot of times there's is a good ... it's very enjoyable to say somebody, let me turn you on to some things, and the other person does the same thing. And they play you stuff that maybe you weren't that familiar with and likewise.

  Robbie Robertson

  Play, People, Musical

  "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in The Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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• My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in bands, they could play music. And we had a nine piece band there in Tyler, and I joined them when I was about, oh, 15 years old and traveled all over Texas in that band, playing for the elite oil people. Hah. And um, I was making about 50 bucks a night, and uh, it taught me, they taught me how to find my timing and to learn the songs that I wanted.

  Carl Gardner

  Song, Teacher, School

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• Jews know the Palestinians. And they know they're not really different. And they know they are from the same background. And they know if they coordinated that they could be an economic success and a real basis for a rebirth in the Middle East.

  Russ Feingold

  Real, Middle East, Different

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• "Joy" is based, albeit loosely, on the life of Joy Mangano, an entrepreneur, inventor and QVC shopping network star with the mega-selling Miracle Mop. Jennifer Lawrence is excellent as Joy, but the film starts off on the wrong foot with woeful depictions of her background as the only sane person in her dysfunctional family.

  Kenneth Turan

  Stars, Shopping, Feet

  "'Joy' Sinks Into A Morass As Its Protagonist Faces Irritating Obstacles". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. December 25, 2015.

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• There was a way that I approached that with the art department and the background players, which was that I didn't want people to have stepped out of a catalogue. This is not a world of perfect beauty. I wanted it to be the real world of the 1960s. I know that some women walked out of the house without lipstick.

  Bridget Carpenter

  Art, Real, Player

  Source: collider.com

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• We're obviously at the edge of something quite new in humanity's experience. That is this globalization process which isn't just economic or social, but involves the interpenetration of cultures, people moving to different places several times in their lifetime, traveling for business or pleasure, and marrying people of very different cultural backgrounds, all of which was almost impossible a hundred years ago.

  Thomas Keating

  Moving, Years, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Shake It Up is a buddy comedy based around dance. It's about two best friends Rocky and CeCe who live out their dream as background dancers on a show called Shake It Up Chicago. They have to navigate life as young teens going to school and dancing on the show.

  Zendaya

  Dream, School, Two Best Friends

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• I never really wanted to have a Guru, I was more interested in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and had a psychological background in college, but he had so much love. To be with him, there was nowhere else to be and nothing else to do. Nothing he taught, philosophy or meditation, are the things I went to India to look for, or was interested in, but he sort of jumped into my heart and then pulled, he pried it open.

  Surya Das

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Heart

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I come from a filmmaking tradition and a storytelling background. So somehow I've emerged like a mutant who can straddle both worlds.

  Alex Gibney

  Mutants, World, Tradition

  Source: www.salon.com

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• Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves open. Lots of readers - including eminent critics - jump to conclusions: that Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy is a central background text, that Aschenbach is an inferior writer, that he's never been attracted by pubescent male beauty before, that he dies of cholera.

  Philip Kitcher

  People, Tragedy, Males

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally.

  Alexander Chee

  Writing, Parent, Culture

  "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.

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• I'm not looking for a series. I love TV. I love developing characters over a long amount of time. I think for an actor it gives you so much material and every season it gives more background and interest and richness. So I would definitely do another series. I'm just waiting for the right thing to come along.

  Christina Hendricks

  Character, Thinking, Long

  "Christina Hendricks: What Joan from start of ‘Mad Men’ would tell Joan at the end". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. March 1, 2016.

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• There are highly innovative companies in the U.S., Germany, and India. And there are many stories of companies that failed to innovate in all those countries. This is good news because it means, regardless of your cultural background or where your company is based, it can become innovative.

  David Livermore

  Country, Mean, India

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I'm a prostitute. Do you know what, it really is basically I just really like to work! I'm thrilled that there's a variety. It's why I got into this business to begin with, because I really don't have the discipline or intellect to have a 9-to-5 job. But I came from a classical music background and I merged that to theatre, it kind of opened up the door to a lot of different possibilities.

  Jason Graae

  Jobs, Doors, Discipline

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• But the stuff that I do is more like all the comic roles like in The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus and I just did this Offenbach operetta at the LA Opera. I love it. I just love it. For me, it's like a great mesh of musical theatre and my classical oboe background to be standing on these huge stages with a full orchestra and all the opulence. I'm a complete sucker for the over-the-topness.

  Jason Graae

  Musical, Theatre, Oboes

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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